Christopher Moore's History News

We were briefly in Montreal last week  -- colder and snowier than Toronto, but still a pleasure to visit.   While we were there, the debate ...

Nice to see a substantial early Canadian history piece by Allan Greer, McGill University historian, featured in the Toronto Star, and based...

A day will come when the passage of time and the assiduous exploration  of long centuries will bring to light what now escapes us, and our  ...

So this happened:   In February Colin Coates, professor of history, wrote in his role as president of the Canadian Historical Association t...

NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and Environment, has a new article about about how the Carney government is decommissioning the Parks...

To hell with all these moaners -- I love the time change.   This weekend felt like the first dawning of spring in Toronto, with temperatures...

I’ve been reading a curious book called Overseen or Overlooked? Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability , written collectiv...

I  I ought to be a sucker for a general interest magazine entirely focused on Canadian issues, personalities, culture, and politics. But in ...

I've been reading two recent books about the history of Canadian writing and publishing in the last half-century or so: Scott McIntyre...

For The Walrus online, David Moscrop offers a "tepid" defence of floor crossing by members of parliament.   We return individuals...

On February 23 The Writers' Guild of Alberta planned to mark Freedom To Read Week with a public forum in Calgary on censorship and book ...

Patrick Lacroix , the historian of franco-america, responds to a recent post here in order to draw our attention to Canada's own new ame...